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Bengaluru’s fix for the water-tanker “mafia”: yet more tankers. What could go wrong? Even as summer rolls around and demand for water begins to peak, Bengaluru isn’t embracing the public utility’s cheaper alternative to the private “tanker mafia” — Mutasim Khan

Fino MD Rishi Gupta’s arrest makes KYC very, very personal The RBI spent years trying to get financial institutions to take KYC seriously. The taxman’s draconian methods may have done it overnight — Arundhati Ramanathan

VCs and techies are turning India into a nation of hired hands The future of work is… whatever you don’t want to do — Seetharaman G

The private-equity handbook for turning non-profit schools into cash cows As one of the first PE-backed edu-infra platforms, Elevate Campuses, prepares to go public, its draft papers offer direct insight into how private-equity firms squeeze money out of schools — Mutasim Khan

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